Why didn't the Rebbe wear a Shtreimel? Training is part of Faith - Rabbi Chaim Dalfin

so we're here in p with finishing the pic today I must tell you that these two pro are loaded you know we only T touch the tip of the iceberg it it is loaded with such thoughts that you could think about and and and reflect on it's it's really very rich chapters and there's a lot of verbiage that the bat that uses here like some of it seems very repetitious but there's no such a thing by him as repetitious you know you need to really understand each each part that seems repetitious what he's adding we did you know we did as much as we we could for now and with hashem's help at another time we'll we'll relearn uh with more more depth but uh just be aware this is um and it's it's it's very important these chapters every chapter is important but this is important for the bottom line cuz of soil is where it begins there are people that can be big philosophers and big and they don't have C soil and it's not good I don't want to mention names but in the past generation there were some very big heads in Tyra in Shas but they weren't stable I don't mean stable they were with sugar some some would say they were with sugar but they were they were bounced out from one Yeshiva to another Yeshiva as a rashash as a MH because they were too wild right they they were too wild in fact I remind myself um I think the RV said RAB salic said if not for his wife who was you know spiritually and and not and and Torah knowledge wise very far from her husband okay but he said that she grounded me and and I spoke to some of his main students when I researched the book on him when I wrote the book about him and the rebba that it was it was indeed so you know he he was such a genius that um he could have ended up in in not good places you know so we find a tendency of you know people who are so bright and philosophical and all that that they they go off from the deep end and we've had that you know so so the AL in these chapters teach teaches us that you have to be grounded very grounded and I I learned from the Reb from my Reb cuz he was that way too he was a genius no question about it in addition to sadic and yet he was very grounded very normal you saw him daving it's like you and I daving you know a regular person daving he didn't make with his hands he didn't throw his body he didn't throw his stomach he didn't kiss he didn't jump you know very grounded by fa bran he would make Lively the the crowd should get into it you know which is you know and then at times he cried profusely you know because of Russian jewelry or or or or whatever the case so you saw a real man you saw a real person who has emotions he can cry um profusely and then he can clap and and and and and and and be B um you know overwhelmingly Etc and that's what a person is we're not you know even killed I mean you know some people are even killed but most people aren't they're they're jubilant you know they get excited they you know what I'm saying to be a robot you know my wife tells me you know like in in England even in Australia you know there were family she told me when they came to the dinner table the father sits down with the cette and the napkin proper there's no talking at the table and the mother serves or if they have a butler and everything is yish you know okay there is there is there is a concept being aristocratic you know there is that concept but by and large people are not that way and the K the balat who was also this and go and everything else he wrote a a safer and he wrote this Tanya where he teaches us to be as holy as holy could be at the same time very grounded and normal and that's an additional I think important message from the sa that one will walk away with mastering it and living with it and and practicing it and learning it you know it my father always taught me of growing up Z normal those are the words I heard from him be normal you know because when you go to Yeshiva especially even and even each one in their own way becomes very fanatical and very you know Zealot like you know so my father and and my father was that way when he was yiva too but as he married and you know he went into to to to work and he worked two jobs and at night with mice and rats running around the you know the the the the shop the the the the sweat shop that he was work working at the factory you know so he quickly learned that only eating burnt mozas and peeled potatoes on PESA um ain't going to do it for your family you know and Yesa uh you you could do that but uh when you get married and you have a family you know they need they want to eat other food yes MOA and then is and then we got to go back to Tanya yeah Reb do question you mentioned the alter Reb this this point about being normal you mentioned the re what about the other rean in between would you would you feel that this is a general um approach through all the rebell I think I think so I I I think so from what listen you know from what I've studied and and seen and seen some of the rash I would say so I would say so it all comes from the safer all comes from the because this this is laage you everything else is the addons and excellent addons but this is called the safer actually this tah tah from the bat this is the foundation and and if you learn these things I mean even from chapter 43 to 51 which we're going to learn start learning next week where Al takes us into heaven I mean he's going to start creeping into heaven and taking us along but nevertheless nevertheless there's a a trajectory to be a b a PO potential bony which means to lead your life and and and and refine yourself and deal with challenges so I I would say that's that's true um I would say that the re because of his personality because of of of his studies because of um the Holocaust because of not having children a lot of things together I think made him you know more with with with the people so for example he didn't wear a the first of the seven rebas of laich that didn't do that so whereas you know theic polish criticizes laich and the Reb for not doing that and kind of in their opinion deviating from the tradition of the bmov the we see it and and you know the reab never really said this but that this was a way of balancing kism kabad within America you know uh in other words you could say this it's this is this is uh hypothetically because he didn't never said it it's like if he would wear maybe he would gain a lot more polish but he would lose a lot more American Bali Chua who knows you know there's there's you have to we don't know these things but I would say that the rebba was very much uh more uh people oriented through his letters his letter writings his the dollars all of those things were very much um together with the people for example the re rashab only braing three times a year publicly and his letters are a different sort you know what I'm saying a very different a the freed was very much a people's rebba but but but in a different way he came he came across as the Holy One or a big and he was Ill you know he he but he had the the aura it came into the previous re like it got scared sced you know like wow this is an angel you know his his his flowing beard and you know what I'm saying a holocaust Survivor went through the Russian the the Stalin you know he had all the elements to make him holy the re you know the Reba was a younger man went to University of sorts for a degree in engineering was in Paris was in Berlin you know it came to America in the the' 40s so so he had a lot of more modern modern type of behaviors that and which he hid his greatness that's the greatness of this man is that he was such a sadic but yet it came through the the garments of the University Paris Berlin the sbon um you know America in the' 40s uh the Brooklyn Navy Yard uh an engineer you know and that's why for a lot of the older it was a shock it was a shock that this this man is going to be the seventh laba to the balat like what it's like you don't look like a balat you know okay iser one sec iser and then you Hill I just wanted to share and it's probably not a at all to the people in the sh when you say normal so what do I what I think of as normal I use the word balanced be balanced yeah because if you're extreme in any direction that means that the the scale is tilted you're going to be extreme in one end means that you're going to be m in something else yeah and a person needs to be balanced yes and many times I'll say this personally in my journey in yish kite you go to an extreme and you think I'm G to be holy I'm G to be I'm G to take on every KRA every you're not balanced you're not balanced and it it has impact so to me normal normaly means being a balanced person yes yes it's a it's a good word and the right word Hill question did the wear AAL is that the tradition that's the tradition you know can anyone prove it I no we don't have a stal we don't have a picture is it written in the SP that describe as h hug Us in that way like it doesn't you know later reers I think it is but but truth be said and as the SAT this was the sat's big complaint is no one really knows thehog is of the B who knows for example there's a group there's a group of called the we have them here in bar Park you might you might have him in her Israel too and they claim they go directly Ben and they know okay you know it's a tradition passed down but there is no proof from what I've read historically all the Y in in Eastern Europe were a and it was only when the decrees came that they had to change the dress that theim held on to their traditional dress while the nonim said it's not worth you know our lives and and and uh trying to bribe people under so they Chang so that's why the peran Inus who are not by any means were a St that was the normal hat to wear in Europe okay but but just for the record there is another that the just came about okay maybe before the B's time but because the in Poland the Pia they there was a decree and they were were making fun of Jews and they told them to put on these tals taals of animals or something on them and because that that they turned the Tails into fur hats and what you're so what you're saying is that but that was before the B's time could be could be but what I'm saying is that there is another opinion that the stal came as a way of elevating the the negative decree to laugh at Jews yes yeah I just want to go on the record saying that um I personally am disappointed that that we do not wear like a spuck I I I I do feel a little bit left out for my other kic Brethren that's all I just want to mention that okay I'm glad you said that and I have what to say about that but not now cuz we got to learn some time yet my my wife's great uncle rendel F's brother the first cidic artist rendle which you know right he drew a picture in the 50s of the Rebel wearing a stro and gave it to the rabbitson who showed it to the rebba and the rebba burst out laughing but he sided with you he felt the re should wear a stal anyway let's go on okay so here we are on page um on page s and we are by the by the by the uh asteris alongside the note and we're talking about this meditation of how just as the king is in the garments and you don't see the king but yet it's the inside of the king that brings the year so to Hashem God Almighty when you when you recognize um that he creates the Shay and everything else and he is within the garments and you focus on that then you'll have the the offer the so now we starting this is a rhetorical point question and although how do we God has invested himself in many garments so seemingly all I see are the Garment so his retort is a Cloud there's no difference at all in seeing a king of Flesh and Blood whe whether you see him when he's naked whether he's dressed with another garment or whether he has a coat and he has many garments on him the main thing is the um the regularity or the to to to train yourself to accustom yourself to to train your minding your mind constantly you have to train yourself that whatever you see the Heaven and the Earth fills the world all that as the externality of the king God almighty so here introduces for the first time that in Tanya this concept of haill and it's an important point so Hagel right usually hail is used as a as a a negative oh you know I'm used to doing it I can say Ash andma by heart I say it every day so many times no herel is generally perceived as a second best here is using haale in the in a in a most positive way and suggesting to us and this is very practical he's telling us here you're he says like this you you Jew you're complaining that you can't see the king you only can see the garments of the king so Al says you have to train yourself you have to be margle yourself to think about what is behind the garments who is behind the garments regard and and if that's and and and the person who's behind the garments a the king it's he that you that you fear and want and all that so what's the difference whether you see him in his naked state or just with one garment or with many garments all of that are is talking about theal it's all external it's not what makes the person what makes the person is the person now the person's personality in essence can Will and should make the external also special and holy so in other words when we see the Heaven and the Earth which is the garments and the Sun and the Moon which are the garments for God's for God cuz Hashem created those things we shouldn't be turned on because of the sun oh it's a sunny day outside I'm driving home it's overcast I said it's 7:30 in the morning here you know why is it light I said oh look it's it's it's so overcast right that's the a that's the way we have to train ourselves it's overcast it means Hashem wants it to be over right now and it's Hashem in the overcast and and the same in there's war now right Hashem wants to express himself through War I don't know why but that's what he wants now that's not easy because the the the the average person likes it to be sunny in the morning and likes there shouldn't be war and likes it should be food and should be Comforts and should should be everything in our life and is would like to D with a minion and because of the situation he many times DAV at the coel at his own wall right so Hashem is there too Hashem is not I'm sorry even more not Hashem is there too Hashem is there that's Hashem why C can we try to make it that you can D with a minion you try like I was walking coming in one of my neighbors very relative says you D with the NES and you're home already cuz the N today is 720 I think how are you home by 7:30 7:35 I said cuz I start at 5 and I come to SCH at 5 5:30 so I can hear the the other before because I have to leave have a she he says oh that's so everyone has to understand the the that Heil training yourself and it takes training it's not this doesn't come by osmosis it does not happen automatically and that's what Al is saying here I want you to see look at the heaven and the Earth the Sun and the Moon and everything else and and reflect and and understand in other words this H little going out to gal beautiful sunrise or a sunset at the ocean right in Malibu California or wherever you are okay in Hawaii the gorgeous places that people talk about and I'm sure naturel it has its places right if your if your realization is coming because of the the the is turning you on that's not what we're talking about we're talking about seeing in that sunrise God so if it's about God one day there's beautiful sunset and the other day it's overcast and stormy and rainy it's the same God so that's what he means over here that's what you have to train yourself and and and that's hard it's not it's not easy because when it's overcast it's overcast when there's war there's war and of right it's not easy it's very difficult and that's the let's continue here we go again for the fourth or fifth time in the chapter mentions the word yarar means to me to to remember he's constantly plugging pushing the memory you need to bring to your mind your memory the memory constantly the memory that it's the The Pest and the highest the inner aspect of God that makes it special now here explains that on one hand we say faith in God and over here is giving us an intellectual meditation so which is it intellect meditation or faith says and this is very important especially for our artist online and listen to this there this concept of of being Mar of training yourself to see the inside is Incorporated in the ver in the word like an artisan that trains his hand to do the craftsmanship so that so amuna right mean everyone knows Faith Dr says there's another meaning to the word amuna and that is from the Lan uman uman meaning what is uman meaning uman means he says here Artisan an woman an expert an AR what yeah Artisan yeah creation yeah so so what is he saying one second one second so what he's saying is train yourself to to to think this way and by doing this you are AA you're accessing your Craftman your craftmanship your Artis part to serve God it it in other wordsa is is an artist right but if he wouldn't use and practice practice his talent of art there would be nothing and we all know from school remember the the guys in school who who doodled and made this gorgeous things and said wow you're a great artist right no today 405 40 years later are they making picassos or REM brands or or or uh or um bronze no they're not creating bronze right but they sat in the same you know school as mhe but they didn't train they didn't spend time they were missing the um so that's what Al is saying if you don't train yourself to focus on the inside versus the outside you're going to fall apart you're not youron is going to be lacking that's what he says let me just finish my and then I'll go back if I have in a minute another thing says I want you to constantly think about and remember and remember the Tor says Place shall you place put upon yourself a king we have to put upon ourselves God forsake he let he let he left the upper and the lower worlds and he says and he says want to designate my kingship my authority over us right here Turn the Page top of 122 and we accept God's desire to be our King and therefore why do we kneel during so he says after you accept in through your mouth then you have to do it in action very point inma is through words I accept you God then when you and you kneel while you're kneeling I that's the implementation of the and that's why we D to the West why do we D to the West if we let these stars and the moon and all these all the Heavenly hosts go on their trajectory they would go Eastward what did they do they make a uturn and they go towards the the is in the west why because the is there is so we learn from the Heavenly Host that they have b as well so if they have B then we should have B too and where are we diving towards the West you know in our Sho here in in sh shabas I found out I think I told you this about three four five months ago that they D to the east they D they don't right so I turn now to the side people look at me I don't care I I you know this isn't a want Temple you know list and and and by the way there are a lot of Orthodox shoes that do this cuz the layout of the Shool is easier to do it that way and I understand but but you know if if I had my choice I wouldn't do it that way but I'm not the you know so at least I face the other way I not completely but instead of going straight I go on an angle right the is in the west when we kneel we're we're emulating the B the Nullification that the Heavenly hosts have to God Almighty as well so the AL concludes in chapter 42 and he says like this we've discussed he says in the chapter about right he says but is great but the bottom line is so he doesn't want us to lose the the that he started with in chapter 41 is that's why he ends with it as well M what do you want to say just want to say it's interesting that in the military here in Israel um the training exercises in the Army they're called imim interesting so that's it that's it that's very good that's exactly what he's saying here yes hillo I I didn't I didn't follow that whole in connection with idea and are you saying that there's shs people that that face West in daving no when it comes to it comes to they don't DAV to the West who does it who does it I mean the shoe the setup of the shoe is not to the right like it says in no I think what Hill's saying Hill correct me if I'm wrong yeah we're used to D we're used to air all over the world to D toward J right so New York obviously that means you're diving to the east right yeah that that's uh that's exactly my that exactly my question okay so the and and and technically he supposed to D mon to the West because but who does that I mean I do we always face just you no there's someone else a lfu who now is next to me I see him also doing that but but but Rabbi dolphin if you're that means in New York you're standing in New York you're going to dive into the West you're like you're the he of what most people would be doing uh could be right that's interesting because I my guess is probably the rest of us I'm guessing that that is like like we've I mean we've never heard like we've never heard of that I never I I didn't realize it till just a few months ago I it all like this no no no because if the the Sho sets itself up facing the the you can set the Sho up that you're facing you the the West right you could do that no it's set up to face toward by by and large usually East right right from here what right but but but yeah but does that mean do we understand that because of those Jews who were let's say in the area maybe in I don't know I'm just Iraq uh bu bu mean areas that were to the okay let let let let let me over let me over shab let me over shabas discuss this with a few people of sh and and get back to you um maybe I should have maybe I should have not mentioned it okay but I'll get back what yeah what what did you say is Sir what I said we all Focus towards ER Israel Yus arabas K that's that's East from New York right right I'll get back to you on that anywhere anyway have a great shabas everyone we'll see you mem Monday chapter 40 three Z good shabas byebye take care byebye